Sighthound Announces Industry-Leading Facial Recognition Software

Sighthound Achieves 99.79% Accuracy Against LFW Benchmark, Beating Google, Baidu and Facebook, Makes System Available for Free to Developers on the Sighthound Cloud Service /EINPresswire.com/ — PALO ALTO, CA — (Marketwired) — 12/16/15 — Sighthound, Inc. today announced that Sighthound’s new facial recognition system ranks first against the Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) benchmark database hosted by the University of Massachusetts, with an accuracy of 99.79%. Previous highest accuracy scores include Google at 99.63% and Baidu at 99.77%. Sighthound also announced that it is making the system available to developers for free on the Sighthound Cloud service. Sighthound Cloud also offers face detection, person detection, gender recognition and facial landmark identification. Founded in 2012, Sighthound develops innovative proprietary computer vision systems and is a leader in deep learning for…